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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Finally registered',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My degree switch was approved.
		My remaining courses are as follows.
	</p>
	<ul>
		<li>
			<span title="Data Structures">CS 3303</span>
			<ul>
				<li>
					<span title="Analysis of Algorithms">CS 3304</span>
					<ul>
						<li>
							<span title="Data Mining and Machine Learning">CS 4407</span><em title="(proctored course)">*</em>
							<ul>
								<li>
									<span title="Artificial Intelligence">CS 4408</span><em title="(proctored course)">*</em>
								</li>
							</ul>
						</li>
						<li>
							<span title="Computer Graphics">CS 4406</span><em title="(proctored course)">*</em>
						</li>
					</ul>
				</li>
				<li>
					<span title="Information Retrieval">CS 3308</span><em title="(proctored course)">*</em>
				</li>
			</ul>
		</li>
		<li>
			All of these: <span title="Web Programming 2">CS 3305</span><em title="(proctored course)">*</em>, <span title="Databases 2">CS 3306</span><em title="(proctored course)">*</em>, <span title="Operating Systems 2">CS 3307</span>, <span title="Comparative Programming Languages">CS 4402</span>, <span title="Software Engineering 2">CS 4403</span>, <span title="Advanced Networking and Data Security">CS 4404</span>, <span title="Mobile Applications">CS 4405</span>, <span title="Calculus">MATH 1211</span>, <span title="Discrete Mathematics">MATH 1302</span>
		</li>
		<li>
			four electives
		</li>
	</ul>
	<p>
		Due to the school not letting me register for any of these courses while still in the associate program, I wasn&apos;t able to use my elective credits from the associate program to take care of that tall stack of prerequisites.
		This doesn&apos;t add to my workload or anything, but means that I must not spend the first three terms of this new period taking very one very specific course each, along with one course of my choosing from elsewhere in the list.
		I&apos;d love to take <span title="Web Programming 2">CS 3305</span> in this coming term, but scheduling course proctors efficiently demands that I take two unproctored terms, then a proctored term before I do anything else.
		Of course, you may remember that I&apos;d attempted to take <span title="Web Programming 2">CS 3305</span> this term, being what was supposed to be a proctored term, and ended up becoming a half-proctored term due to the ban on associate-level students taking upper-degree courses.
	</p>
	<p>
		Actually, it seems my records are wrong.
		This could be due to a change in the course requirements at some point in the next two years or due to an error on my part.
		In either case, <span title="Data Structures">CS 3303</span> is currently a proctored course, meaning my first term is required to be proctored.
		I thought I&apos;d be taking <span title="Web Programming 2">CS 3305</span> like I want to this term after all, though it turns out the course is over capacity because I&apos;ve been forced to wait so long to register for it.
		I&apos;m almost certain there have been changes though.
		Going through the list, several courses lost the need for proctors and several gained them.
		It looks like some required courses have changed.
		I have no time left to go through the requirements due to my advisor putting off helping me for so long. I have to get my course choices submitted <strong>*today*</strong>!
		And that&apos;s not to mention that I need to get my proctor to confirm willingness to proctor my exams today as well, all while writing an essay that&apos;s due today.
		I really should have worked more on that essay over the past couple days.
	</p>
	<p>
		Ugh.
		Assuming the course prerequisites haven&apos;t changed, I won&apos;t be able to take <span title="Web Programming 2">CS 3305</span> for three terms now.
		This terms was my big chance to take that course early on.
		After waiting on pins and needles for the proctor to accept my proctor requests, and finally pestering them about it, they confirmed with the university that they&apos;d proctor my exams, so I replied once more to my advisor to update them on the matter as they&apos;d requested:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Hello <span class="redacted">[REDACTED]</span>,
		</p>
		<p>
			I wasn&apos;t sure I&apos;d make it on time, with less than a day to register for a term I need a proctor for, but my course registration is complete.
			Thank you for your help!
		</p>
		<p>
			Thank you,<br/>
			~ Lexi
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Great explanation of your perspective!
		</p>
		<p>
			I&apos;d argue that heart attack might not have as much of a biological difference between men and women as most people believe though.
			I think women get less heart attacks due to having a better level of self-care and help-seeking tendencies than men.
			Like you said, men are pressured into just toughing it out.
			That&apos;s pretty hard on a body!
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="health">
	<h2>Health</h2>
	<p>
		For some reason, a nurse wanted to weigh me before the doctor saw me, so I took the opportunity to ask them to re-check my $a[BMI] while they were at it, which they&apos;d need my current weight to do.
		As it turns out, my weight has gone <strong>*up*</strong>, dragging my $a[BMI] up with it.
		They didn&apos;t tell me what my current $a[BMI] is, only that it went up, but I suppose it doesn&apos;t matter anyway.
		I know my hands have lost volume.
		My ring size has without question gone down.
		This is a fact.
		I&apos;m pretty sure my belly girth has gone down as well.
		My fat is no longer so much in the way that when I bend down to put on socks or tie my shoes, it presses into my lungs enough to wind me.
		I seem to have gained more muscle than I&apos;ve lost fat though.
		Muscle isn&apos;t the enemy; it&apos;ll help speed fat loss.
		It seems $a[BMI] isn&apos;t going to be a useful indicator for me as to how much further I have to go.
	</p>
	<p>
		I was planning on declining anaesthetic.
		I&apos;d thought the doctor would want to apply a topical numbing agent, but it turned out that wasn&apos;t the case.
		They wanted to try cutting the glass fragment out from the shallow, dead skin if possible.
		They said that if they did need to go deep enough to use anaesthetic, it&apos;s still hurt a lot.
		I guess the anaesthetic wouldn&apos;t be enough to fight off the pain of deep cuts.
		Or perhaps it was the administration of the anaesthetic that&apos;d hurt.
		They weren&apos;t quite clear, and I didn&apos;t ask because I didn&apos;t want the anaesthetic anyway.
		I try to avoid drugs that treat symptoms instead of causes if I think I can possibly bear the symptoms of whatever is going on.
		I was then brought a form to sign, authorising three separate things, one being anaesthesia.
		So I just didn&apos;t sign that section.
		That way, if they thought they needed to administer it, they&apos;d have to actually talk to me about it first, and I could decline.
	</p>
	<p>
		The cuts were much shallower than I&apos;d though they&apos;d be.
		I couple times, I thought I felt a tiny pain, but I wouldn&apos;t&apos;ve even noticed it had I not been hyper-focused on what was going on with my foot at the time, and I may have even just imagined the pain altogether.
		The doctor couldn&apos;t find any glass, and decided all I had was a corn, and worked to cut it out.
		This corn was the hard lump I&apos;ve been feeling, and I guess being on such a tiny area, it hurt to step on despite it not being sharp like glass.
		As they were about to finish up, they located the initial cause of the problem: a tiny hair fragment was lodged under my skin.
		When I got jabbed by the broken glass, there must&apos;ve been a perfectly-placed hair that got dragged into the wound with the glass.
		I&apos;d successfully removed all the glass, but had no way to know the hair was in there.
		The theory then is that the hair was agitating my skin, and caused the corn to develop.
		It&apos;s no wonder I couldn&apos;t find the glass when I was attempting to fix my foot myself.
		The corn would have felt just like part of the callused skin to me, and the hair fragment would have as much give to it as the uncallused skin.
	</p>
	<p>
		With that done, I asked to get my cholesterol level checked while I was there.
		They declined, saying I&apos;m too young for it to matter much.
		So why were they worried about my cholesterol level before?
		In any case, I guess this isn&apos;t something to worry about for the time being.
		I&apos;m not losing weight, but I am losing fat.
		If my fat reserves continue to deplete, my cholesterol level is sure to be down by the time it really matters.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="prize">
	<h2>Prize wheel</h2>
	<p>
		I got home and checked the mail only to find out that I&apos;d been chosen by a car dealership to take a spin on their prize wheel.
		I&apos;d just left that area too, it was right near the doctors&apos; office.
		So back out I went.
		I only won a dollar, the smallest prize.
		The biggest prize was five dollars though, so still not worth the effort of going down there.
		Still, I mostly went as an excuse for a bike ride.
		If I&apos;m gaining more muscle than I&apos;m losing in fat, I need to try to increase muscle production further.
		If I can get my muscle mass high enough, I should be able to burn away a lot of fat even by just sitting and doing coursework.
		Muscle burns energy just just to keep itself alive; it doesn&apos;t need to be in active use to be beneficial when trying to slim down.
	</p>
</section>
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